PICTURES-Copy Cats

I'm learning if the mess isn't dangerous and harming my monkies....it's okay....

I let them play because it keeps them occupied....

Seriously, I kid you not...if Ellie's not copying Gabe.....Gabe is copying Ellie......

We gotta nother new fashion statement in this household!

What can I say.....he just loves his little sister and wants to be like her!

******UPDATE***********

We had Jason's high school spring concert tonite and not wanting to do the public pee thing yet I put Gabe in a diaper. We were sitting there and he said, "Mommy I have to pee."

I just looked at him like he was speaking a foreign language. So my Mom says, "Here, let me."

She comes back and says: Well, he peed, standing up!!! ( I have been training him sitting down after trying to train standing up for months with no luck.) Is it all seriously just clicking in his mind?!?!?!?!

Hallelujah!!!!

Poo Yahooooooo!

I just recieved the phone call from my Mama:
Ladies and Gents......................

GABE POOPED IN THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YIPEEEEEE!!!!!!!

A Disciple

Our Pastor preached on "being a disciple of Jesus" yesterday. He posed the question:

"Are you simply a believer or are you a true disciple?"

So, I come home and look up the definitions.....

BELIEVER: (Dictionary.com) to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so: Only if one believes in something can one act purposefully.

DISCIPLE: (Dictionary.com)
1.Religion.
a.one of the 12 personal followers of Christ.
b.one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1.
c.any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.
2.any follower of Christ.
3.(initial capital letter) a member of the Disciples of Christ.
4.a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower: a disciple of Freud.
–verb (used with object)
5.Archaic. to convert into a disciple.
6.Obsolete. to teach; train.

And then tonite, I read a blog that has this quote:

"The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God. Paul delighted to spend himself out for God's interests in other people, and he did not care what it cost. We come in with our economical notions - "Suppose God wants me to go there - what about the salary? What about the climate? How shall I be looked after? A man must consider these things." All that is an indication that we are serving God with a reserve. The apostle Paul had no reserve. Paul focuses Jesus Christ's idea of a New Testament saint in his life, not one who proclaims the Gospel merely, but one who becomes broken bread and poured out wine in the hands of Jesus Christ for other lives." [ Source: Oswald Chambers ]

Hmmm.......I think God is trying to speak something here.

Pictures-Weekend Recap

I think we had our first halfway quiet and relaxing weekend since I can't remember when....

The two monkies kept us busy....whatever Gabe does..Ellie does and vice versa.

If Gabe wears a hat.....

Ellie wears a hat.....

Potty training is going good...we aren't doing peeing in public yet....I figure we've got to

get it mastered pretty well at home before I tackle that part. Picture above is Gabe racing

to the bathroom with wet pants before I see him ;)

Here is Gabe freaking out and standing on his tiptoes trying to get away from the puddle ;)

And this is what Little Miss Muffett does while Mommy is occupied with potty training.

Ellie loves the vaccum....so here they are "Farming".

Snuggling and watching their new favorite movie: Horton Hears a Who......a must see!

She is constantly tormenting her brother ;)

We continue to thank God for these precious little gifts.....

The love to play on Mommy's tubs of clothes when she is sorting and organizing.

This one's for you, Whitney ;) King of the throne....

At one point I found Ellie on the TOP back part of this chair and Gabe standing on the seat part..

DOUBLE TROUBLE are these kiddos ;)

God Gave Victory!

"We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power... and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. When the Spirit of God comes, He does not give us visions, He tells us to do the most ordinary things conceivable... whenever God comes, the inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things-- the things we would never have imagined God was in, and as we do them we find He is there." ~Oswald Chambers

And even in the commonplace of the bathroom....God is there. Gabe conquered the throne

this morning and FINALLY-- actually went potty 2 times this morning. We had some

wet undies a couple times, but I didn't even care.....I was dancing the happy dance

in the bathroom because God gave us victory!!!

Right before lunch the kids and I were dancing to Michael W. Smith and Gabe

was jumping around too, praising God. When all of a sudden, there was a

fountain of pee shooting across the kitchen floor!! He refused to put

pants on this morning after putting on big boys undies....so I thought, why not?

This way if he wets, I will see it sooner than later. So he got a little too

excited and forgot he had big boys pants on I think. You should have seen

the look of surprise on his face!! It was great....

Pictures-This n That

Ellie's latest: "Where'd it go?"

I've seriously got to get to work on teaching her how to be a lady ;)

We headed to the petting zoo today at the high school.....Gabe was so excited he was a blur the whole time going from one animal to the next. He made sure he told everyone around what sound each animal made with ALOT of expression.

There were goats, donkies, horses, puppies,peacock.....

We made sure to go at the time Uncle Isaac was in class there.

Ellie had fun, but was soooooooooooo tired....so not sure she enjoyed it as much as Gabe.

It's hard to see against Isaac's black shirt, but this is the cutest baby goats ever!!!

They had fainting goats which are pretty cool.....they just fall over randomly when scared.

And of course, we can't forget the baby pigs.....

Jason had a patriotic spring concert the other night at one of his grade schools (he teaches

at 5 schools total) I cannot even begin to tell you how proud I was of him....getting this many

little ones (Kdg-4thgraders) to sing, do motions and actually stay in one place at one time is pretty stinkin' amazing. Way to go honey!!!

Pray for Gavin

I happened upon this precious little boy's blog about a week ago and have been following his
story and progress. I do not know them....but they are a part of the family of God.

We know from experience how powerful prayer is when we need it most.
If you hava minute, check out his blog and say a prayer for that precious family.

I simply cannot imagine watching our children go thru undescribable pain and discomfort.
I feel like what we went thru with Gabe was nothing compared to this.

Heavenly Father, I just pray right now You would hold little Gavin closer still in Your mighty arms. I pray Your peace upon his family. I pray that Your healing hand would continue to touch and bring his little body back around to working order. I pray that You would make the pain bearable....for Gavin's body and for his parents hearts. We believe You Father, that You sent Jesus to die for our sins, and that by His stripes, we are healed of EVERYTHING! Thank You, Father. IN Jesus' Name...Amen.

http://gavinowens.blogspot.com/